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Introduction

The magnificent seventeen-part setting in four choirs of Exultet iam angelica turba is a motet to accompany the lighting of the Easter candle in the early hours of Easter morning. A fourteen-part version was published in Gabrieli’s 1615 Symphoniae sacrae. The seventeen-part version survives only in a manuscript in Kassel, Germany, with the three extra parts added by an unknown hand: this is designated as Choir 4, to be sung in a ‘palchetto’—as in one of the nicchie of St Mark’s.

Recordings

Giovanni Gabrieli’s magnificent liturgical settings from the heart of the Venetian polychoral tradition are performed with exuberance and majesty in the composer’s four-hundredth anniversary year.» More

May the heavenly host of angels exult, may the divine mysteries exult, and for the victory of so great a king may the trumpet of salvation resound. May the earth also rejoice illumined by such great brightness, and, lit up by the splendour of the eternal king, may it feel it has lost the darkness of the whole globe. May the mother church also rejoice, adorned with the brightness of so great a light, and may this hall resound with the mighty voices of the peoples. Alleluia.